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Rebecca Onie: Doing Something about the Situation of Medical Care

Rebecca Onie, a former student of mine, was recently named a MacArthur Fellow (“genius grant”) for her amazing work as executive director of Project Health, a non-profit organization that she co-founded while a sophomore at Harvard College. Project Health, dedicated to breaking the link between poverty and poor health, places undergraduate volunteers in medical clinics to help medical professionals connect patients and their families to local food and housing.

Here are some videos depicting the good work that Rebecca and Project Health do in attempting to assist families achieve a situation that will permit them to become healthy.

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Congratuations to Rebecca and the other remarkable people at Project Health.